WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips

• Hungarian DIY minimal cold pop /post-punk witch trio PLETYKA “POST SOMNIA” from the upcoming 5-song “Kedves Kis Gonoszságok” EP [SZÉGYEN KAZETTÁK]

After debuting two years ago with a simultaneously atmospheric and surreal, as spooky and unsettling demo cassette featuring skeletal organic bass driven and synth-heavy post-punk in the style of early New Order, Fra Lippo Lippi or Pink Industry, the Hungarian trio tease the upcoming proper debut EP with a somberly danceable, moody interlacing of bouncy, tight clattering percussion, and gurgling broody bass lines, to set a droning mechanical throbbing backdrop for vibrant whispery female vocals, swathed in ominously haunting synth loops, alternating gloomy angst with teasing playfulness.

• Vienna-based post-punk /experimental electronics /synth-pop /synth-punk duo Didi Disko & Maren Rahmann, aka Laut Fragen “Wegwerfhelden” from “Wegwerfhelden” EP [Numavi Records]

Three danceable, abrasive, disturbingly familiar shards of electro-funk grooves, electro-punk urgency, and hypnotic synth-pop. Replete with electro-funk pressure, “Wegwerfhelden” (Disposable Heroes) compels an off-kilter mechanical and overbearing environment built on a crackling array of urgent obsessive programmed beats, acidic syncopated groovy bass chugs, angular guitar stabs, along with screechy and bleepy frequencies, to agitate and bounce with angry, fearful spoken words, shuffled with soothingly disturbing female voice clips,  phobically fretting about a woman’s natural role as mother through a realistic lens of patriarchal war, blood and oppression.

• Swedish/Norwegian indie /electropop duo Hasse Mattsson and Erlend Eilertsen, aka The Sound Veil Society “Hunger for Light” third single from the upcoming debut album [Progress Productions]

The Scandinavian duo’s third single gives us intense, engrossing emotions with their electrifying brand of broad, spacious, and poignant atmospheric electropop, wrapped in a vibrant interweaving of ominous buzzing throbs and vibrant fluttering synthesizer chimes, radiating a stirring, melancholic aura, to lift heartfelt, expressive male vocals, triumphantly soaring, from the shadows into light.

• Florida-based ethereal wave band of vocalist Erin Welton and multi-instrumentalist Scott Ferrell, aka Autumn’s Grey Solace “Hand Stretched Skies” from the new LP “The Neverending”
  
• Australia dark ambient /nordic /pagan folk solo project Vígundr “Forn” single
  
• Hamburg-based dark ambient /coldwave /darkwave /post-punk /synth project of Anna Nin, aka Glaring “Please never come back” from “Life on other planets is difficult” album [Lux Rec]
• Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project moonvampire “take my heart” from “nothing like them” EP
  
• New Orleans techno /EBM /coldwave project of Joshua Strachan, aka Desolation Colony – “The World Is An Open Tomb” from the compilation album “Wound In The Subsoil” 2xCD [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
• Italy goth /batcave /darkwave /post-punk band They Die – “Smoke And Mirrors” title track of the upcoming LP “Smoke And Mirrors” [SwissDarkNights Label]
• Italy new wave /post-punk solo project by Leonardo Cannatella (ex BeStrass), aka Leva “Do you love me?” from “ADRIFT” LP [Icy Cold Records]
• Stockholm, Sweden dreampop /darkwave /post-punk /dark-gaze project of Christian Williamsson, aka Slowkill “Shadows” from the album “Shores of Erebos” [Inåt Bakåt Records]
• Sonoran Desert, AZ four-piece gothic rock /darkwave /psychedelic /cinematic post-punk band formed by vocalist-bassist Sonia Campbell and visual artist, guitarist & synth wizard Daniel Martin Diaz (Trees Speak), aka Magic Knives “Andromeda” from the self-titled debut album [Library Of The Occult]
• German electronic /darkwave duo In Mitra Medusa Inri “Gone too soon” from “Estrangement” EP
  
• Berlin-based post-punk /darkwave /deathrock trio El Ángel Exterminador “Los Cuatro Jinetes” from the LP “Crónica” [Bat-Cave Productions]
• San Antonio, Texas 4-piece EBM /gothic rock /electro-funk /industrial group Daisychain Deathcult “BLOODSUCKERS (XXVI MIX)” from “BLOODSUCKERS” EP [D.C. DEATHCULT / BRABBLE RECORDS]
• Italian Industrial /Post-Punk /Dark Wave /Synth duo Karbokroma “Television Off” from the LP “Frozen Waves” [Stanze Fredde Records]
• Antwerp, Belgium new wave /electronic poetry duo of poet Alex Deforce and musician Jan Tromp/Burger Service, Morgen De Knoop “Als dat het maar is” single
  
• Brest, France experimental /no wave /folk /avant-pop DIY project of Laurène Exposito (EYE) and friend Théo Delaunay (member and producer of Parasite Jazz, panoptique, De Klok & Violent Quand On Aime), aka Diagonale des Yeux “Madeleine” title track of the debut album “Madeleine” [Knekelhuis]
• Italian industrial /wave /darkwave /experimental post-punk trio Follow the Sun “Black Room” from “Black Room” EP [Lux Rec]
• California mountains-based DIY solo industrial /darkwave producer Fornicata “Bitter Boy Groove” from the LP “Bitter Boy Grooves”
  
• French new wave /coldwave band THE WHEAL “La Nuit” from the vinyl 12″ reissue of the only album “La cassette argentée” (originally released on cassette by Ghost Horse label in 2018) [RE_FORM] Italy post-punk solo project by Leonardo Cannatella (ex BeStrass), aka Leva “Do you love me?” from “ADRIFT” LP [Icy Cold Records]
• Edmonton, Alberta-based minimal synth /dark electro-wave /synth-pop one-man project Markus Midnight “Kingdom of Plastic” single
  
• Vienna, Austria coldwave /dark wave /synthpop duo Touch by Touch “Amor Mortifera” from the debut LP “Power Dynamics” [Kernkrach Records]
• Sammichele Di Bari, Italy indie rock /electrogaze /darkwave/ post-punk solo act The Spoiled “Sad Eyes, Angry Eyes from the second LP “When It Rains” [AVANT! Records]
• Dublin, Ireland Dark Post-Punk /Synthpop solo act NightCrawl “Vanishing Point” title track of the new EP “Vanishing Point”
  
• Budapest, Hungary goth /coldwave /darkwave four-piece Cold Contrast “The Stranger” single
  
• Santiago, Chile synth-pop /darkwave /coldwave female-fronted duo Vioflesh “The Spell” single [darkTunes]
• Lisbon-based techno /industrial /coldwave /occult dark electronic duo featuring João Vairinhos (LÖBO, Wildnorthe) and Sara Inglês (Wildnorthe), NECRØ “Hanged Man” single [Cold Transmission Music]
• Barcelona‘s industrial /electronic /techno /darkwave /synthpop duo SDH (Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms) “You Lost My Keys” from the upcoming LP “Rider” [Artoffact Records]
• Athens, GR Dark /Electro-Wave /Synth duo Incirrina “Mutate “from the upcoming third album “Trace” [Cold Transmission Music]
• Greek audiovisual noir electronic project from Athens, ΗΧΟΤΟΠί “Avrio Tha Fygo / Αύριο Θα Φύγω (Zaatar Edit)”
  
• Casablanca, Morocco coldwave /new wave solo project GAOUTA “Cold Scene” single
  
• Paris-based French–Italian dark disco /synth-pop /darkwave/coldwave duo Echoberyl “Salomé (Suffer Me)” from “Mother Solitude : Expanded” 14-track CD reissue of the 2021 album [Mother Solitude Records]
• Montréal-based coldwave /minimal wave /synth-pop producer and songwriter Xavier Paradis, aka Automelodi “Tout arracher (Void Republic remix)”
  
• Slovenia/Croatia EBM /techno /dark wave /dark electro duo Christian Kroupa & Le Chocolat Noir, aka Black Dot “CDG Rouge (Hot Version)” from upcoming “Lust” EP [KRI]
• German EBM /minimal electronics /electro duo of producers Ive Müller & René Kirchner, heimelektronik & MAS 2008 “Das Leben Vor Augen” from heimelektronik & MAS 2008 “Der Motor Treibt Uns An” from heimelektronik & MAS 2008 – “Electronic Corporation 1998-2006” compilation [Mannequin Records]
• Madrid, Spain, pioneer futuristic trance /rhythm and noise /industrial electronic act, founded in 1980, currently a duo of Arturo Lanz (founding member) and Saverio Evangelista (member since 1991), ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO “Sequela” from the new LP “El Pulso del Acero: Shinkansen” [Geometrik]
• US drone-ambient-industrial alias of legendary techno veteran producer Bryan Zentz, aka Mendikant DX “Monospace” from the LP “A Pack of Ghosts” [Sonic Groove]
• Berlin-based Goth /Coldwave /Dark Wave /Post-Punk /Techno /EBM solo project William Bleak “Ghost Waltz” single [Breathing Records]
• Riverside/Los Angeles-based EBM /Electro-Industrial project Divider “Artifacts” from upcoming LP “Zero” [Re:Mission Entertainment]
• Germany EBM /industrial/wave /dark electro solo project of Niko Martens, BENT “Dogma” off the upcoming debut album “Renascence”
  German new romantic /wave /synthpop trio Beyond Obsession “You’re Not My Lover” single [Scanner]
• Los Angeles-based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine), aka BlakLight “Leave a Light On (Code 64 Remix)” Maxi Single
  
• L.A. dark wave /synthpop artist Madeline Goldstein “One Star One Body” from upcoming “Speaking to the Body” LP [Artoffact Records]
• UK synth-pop/electronic darkwave veterans Massive Ego “Broken Tomorrow feat. Boy George (Actors Remix)” [Out Of Line]
• Brussels, Belgium Retro-Future /EBM /Synth-Pop /Electro-Industrial producer Analog 80 “Soleil Vert” single
  
• UK industrial-electronic-synth-pop act j:dead “Who Knows” single [Infacted Recordings]
• Chicago-based industrial /electronic rock project of Dave McAnally, aka .SYS Machine “Shallow” from the forthcoming “Parts Unknown” album [Glitchmode Media]
• Spanish electronic /synthpop solo project Lifelong Corporation “Unintelligible (Shoot Version)” off “Unintelligible (Justice Edition)” maxi-single
  
• Germany EBM /industrial /dark electro /synth-pop act Maschinengeist – “Am I Alive [Data Routine A]” single  
  
• South African cinematic /synthwave /synth-pop solo project of Mia Van Wyk, aka Hunter As a Horse “Here’s To All The Ones” single [Metropolis]
• L.A. Industrial /EBM /dark electro/darkwave multidisciplinary artist (aka Straight Razor), Omar Doom “One Hundred Years” (The Cure cover)
  
• Massachusetts goth /post-punk /darkwave duo Ghost Painted Sky “Sound and Fury” (single)
  
• Detroit, MI shoegaze /indie rock /post-punk /synth-pop solo project Soft Touch “Leavin it all behind” from the upcoming LP “Here I am today”
  
• Bristol, UK-based Electro-Punk / Darkwave outfit of Alastair Power and Alice Sheridan, Strange Futures “False Autumn” from “Art or Love” EP
  
• Amsterdam-based new wave /electronic /synth /post-punk band Silent Runners ”Cannot Be Undone” single
  
• German gothic rock /new wave /post-punk band The Occasion “Burn In Your Eyes” from “-3/105” EP
  
• Lithuanian minimal post-punk solo project of producer-DJ and Meta Moto label owner Osvaldas Egzotikka, aka Egzotikka “Linijos” title track of the album “Linijos” [META MOTO]
• New York shoegaze /dreampop /new wave /post-punk duo Soft Divide “Don’t go” from debut s/t EP
  
• Petaling Jaya, Malaysia new wave /post-punk solo project ( Katfëud), mrizalmustbedestroyed “Lets go to the Art Gallery” single off the upcoming album and third release “Perverse Brutalistic Desires”
  
• Pacific Northwest hardcore punk /deathrock band (members of Electric Chair), EXCESS BLOOD – “Porcelain Doll” from “PORCELAIN DOLL” EP [UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY]
• Italian/Turkish new wave /garage punk /post-punk foursome GENTILESKY “Heavenly Body” from the second “Dream” LP [Slovenly Recordings]                   
• Cincinnati, OH garage / post-punk outfit Choncy “Dressing the Part” off the new album “Trademark” [Feel It Records]
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK post-punk /punk band IRKED “Settle Down” from the debut “The Grievance″ LP [Wrong Speed Records]
• Portland, OR egg punk /garage punk /post-punk outfit (ft. members of launderette, cherry cheeks, and besotten), BYPROXY “Dark Oxygen” from the debut s/t EP
  
• German Black Metal /Dark electro /EBM /Deathwave act Verrottet “Das Tor zur Hölle” interpretation of Beherit’s “The Gate of Nanna.”
  
• Argentina ambient /fantasy core /adventure /dungeon synth act Aventyr “The sands of time” from “The sword of destiny” EP
  
• Dutch dark ambient /dungeon synth project ULK “Careful Channeling” from the cassette album “Submerged and Forgotten” [Gondolin Records]
• Würzburg, Germany black metal /medieval dungeon synth act Nachtwache “Die Weinsberger Bluttat” from “Der Ritter mit der Eisenfaust – Eine Sammlung” [Personal Uschi Records]
• French fantasy ambient /dungeon synth side project of artist Baddoar, Hoarspire “Frostveil Arrival” from the cassette album “Labyrinthine Realm” [Fiadh Productions]
• Berlin-based ambient /comfy /fantasy synth /dungeon synth project Willow Tea “Our End Comes Ever Whispering” from “Death And Life And All That Lays In Between” LP
  
• Euskadi lofi /ambient /fantasy /dark dungeon synth act Lord Bakartia “Where silence speaks in hushed tones Part I” from the long-form cassette album “Where silence speaks in hushed tones” [Gondolin Records]